01-18-08

[RazorOutlaw]

So you're saying it's gonna be filmed from the person's camera in unexperienced shaky hands throughout the whole entire movie?

Yeah that's gonna be awesome!

I hate films like that.. can anyone say "The Blair Witch Project"? Does nobody remember how annoying that was?

If they can do it as well as the scene from "Children of Men" the movie might be bearable. Sure people might question how the average Joe can keep the camera so steady, but I'd rather take a mostly steady style versus what you'd get from a soldier filming in Iraq or something (never realize how powerful some explosions could be until I realize these men and women were dropping the cameras).

[Napoleon the Clown]

I can't say that the handheld "view of a character" concept would be bad as, say, the opening of the movie. But it could get very annoying if it keeps up through the whole thing.


Please be a bitchin' Giant Monster Movie... Possibly some sort of Godzilla related movie? Good old Godzilla does have a few traits in common with Cthulhu that H.P. Lovecraft references would be understandable.


In all reality, it'll probably suck something hard. Call me cynical, but that's what I'm expecting at this point.

[Admiral Valdemar]

I love how everyone has already declared it will likely suck from one barely two minute teaser that, as with all teasers, WON'T SHOW FUCK ALL.

Geez, what the fuck is wrong with you? The jumping to conclusions that it will all be handy-shakey-cam-tastic is also funny.

Here's an amazing concept: I'm going to wait and see. Scarily pragmatic.

In case it is Cthulhu, Dalton et al better get the hell out of Dodge.

[Uraniun235]

Here's an amazing concept: I'm going to wait and see.

But that's not nearly as much fun as shouting about it now!

[Spanky The Dolphin]

I think it would be awesome if the whole thing was from a hand-held home video perspective. Just imagine: a cinéma vérité monster movie!!

[Bob the Gunslinger]

Has anyone checked out the viral-marketing Japanese Slusho site? (One of the characters in the trailer has a Slusho shirt, advertizing a product that Abrams apparently made up...) I glanced at it and read a story about a woman who disappears at sea while looking for a great beverage ingredient and whose son discovers the amazing Slusho ingredient at the bottom of the sea while searching for her. ( ) The site boasts that Slusho is best served cold, like at the bottom of the sea. Also, the boy dreams that he can't stop drinking Slusho and that it turns him into the biggest whale of all, or something. It's written in pseudo-Engrish, so it's not exazctly clear.

Anyway, if this has anything to do with the plot of "parasitemovie" or "1-18-08" or "Cloverfield", all I have to say is that it sounds lame. Also, derivative of Stephen King (Grey Matter) and Futurama (Slurm, Slurm Royal).

According to Wikipedia, the Cloverfield thing may be a play on some "Serpo" planet that exists in a sort of Roswell mythos story online... Neither of which sounds very Lovecraft inspired (unless Slusho is made of Shoggoths?).

All I know is that the movie better damn well have a giant monster trashing shit oldschool.